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‘Elephantiasis’ virus may boost AIDS risk: study

PARIS, France (AFP) -- People infected with a common parasitic worm may be twice as likely to acquire the HIV…

Videographic explaining how hurricanes form

(AFP) Hong Kong shut down Tuesday as Typhoon Nida brought violent winds and torrential rain, with hundreds of flights cancelled…

Dutch activists sue government over air pollution

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) - Dutch environmentalists said Tuesday they are suing the government over poor air quality, saying people's "fundamental"…

China’s ‘mosquito factory’ aims to wipe out Zika, other diseases

    GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Every week, scientists in southern China release 3 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes on a 3…

Sao Tome and Principe eyes tourism boost to economy

Situated off the Atlantic coast of Africa, the twin archipelago Sao Tome and Principe was once the world's leading producer…

Mexican inmates use tattoo skills for purse designs

Using homemade tattooing equipment, inmates of six Mexican prisons take part in a rehabilitation project called Prison Art, which pays…

Rare ‘corpse flower’ blooms again in New York after 80 years

Visitors flood into New York Botanical Garden to see a blooming "corpse flower", a rare, gigantic plant famous for its…

Palestinian designer for rich and famous pops up in W.Bank

by Shatha Yaish RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories(AFP) -- Rami Kashou's designs are worn by Hollywood stars and royalty but for the…

Underwater microscope shows corals competing for space on reef

REUTERS -- A new underwater microscope designed and built by researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of…

Device para maiwasan ang paghilik, naimbento sa Israel

Malakas ka bang humilik sa tuwing ika'y natutulog? O di naman kaya ay hindi makatulog ang iyong katabi sa lakas…

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